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Wisdom Quotes - random


Euripides | Wisdom Quotes
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.




Robert Bridges
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God
and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
Larry Niven
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
Laozi (or Lao Tzu) | Wisdom Quotes
To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Charles Dickens
There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
Martin Luther
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
John Selden
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Aristophanes | Wisdom Quotes
Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
(tr. in Goldstein-Jackson 1983, p. 163)




Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
Akiba ben Joseph
A fence to wisdom is silence.
John Cheever
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two.
John Hennigan
We can't smell what The Rock is cookin' at the Palace of Wisdom.
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
Musa al-Kadhim
Human beings have not been given anything higher than wisdom and intellect.
Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
John Hennigan
We hang out with Mr. Fuji at the Palace of Wisdom.
Robertson Davies
Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.


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